Latin+America

Major Development:

Political- PRI gains power in Mexico; Batista establishes a democracy in Cuba in 1933; Castro brings communism to Cuba in 1958; North American Free Trade Agreement

Economic- Fidel Castro reconstructs Cuba's system of trading in order to get a world standing- used communist motives; Castro used collectivized farming for trade

Social- Education was improved - literacy rates rise; liberation authority became popular;

Change Analysis Chart**: Latin America 1914 - Present** Key Changes || Basic Features at the End of the Period || Causes and effects ||  · Export-led economic expansion  · Large gap from rich to poor  · Competition with Europe/North America  · Underdevelopment ||  · Gap between rich and poor  · Commercial competition  · Open markets  · industrialization ||  · Open markets  · Capitalism  · Communism (Cuba) · Problems in wealth distribution > ||  · The Great Depression
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Theme || <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Basic features at beginning of period || <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Key Continuities
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Economic || <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Open markets
 * North American Free Trade Agreement is signed
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mexico buys more good from U.S. due to NAFTA because taxes were taken away ||
 * ^  ||^   || Cuba's economy went down after the collapse of the Soviet Union The Panama canal was built and allowed more efficient trade ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Politics || * Mexico was controlled by the Party of the Industrialized Revolution
 * Cuba was a democracy by 1933
 * Mexican constitution 1917
 * 1910 Mexican Revolution || * Centralized leadership
 * Imperial beliefs || * Cuba is a communist nation
 * North American Free Trade Agreement is established
 * Populism
 * || * Cuba is a potential threat to the nations around it due to the strong dictatorship
 * Mexico buys more good from U.S. due to NAFTA because taxes were taken away ||
 * ^  ||^   || * Cuba establishes Communism
 * Populism becomes popular ||^  ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Social ||  ||   ||   ||   ||